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Seattle (/siˈætəl/ (listen) see-AT-əl) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The Seattle metropolitan area's population is 4.02 million, making it the 15th-largest in the United States. Its growth rate of 21.1% between 2010 and 2020 makes it one of the nation's fastest-growing large cities.

Seattle is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington. It is the northernmost major city in the United States, located about 100 miles (160 km) south of the Canadian border. A major gateway for trade with East Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2021[update].

The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, Oregon, on the schooner Exact at Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named "Seattle" in 1852, in honor of Chief Si'ahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Today, Seattle has high populations of Native, Scandinavian, European American, Asian American and African American people, as well as a thriving LGBT community that ranks sixth in the United States by population.

Yunxiao County (ancient Yunxiao Hall, Zhangzhou capital) is located on the southern coast of Fujian Province. It is located between 23 °45km north latitude and 117o 07km east longitude, with an area of 1054.3 square kilometers and a population of 416000 (sixth census). The county has Zhangzhao Expressway crossing, 24.8km in the territory, and 400.7 km in the trunk of National Highway 324 and Provincial Highway 210,211. Inland navigation 30 kilometers, coastal ships can directly reach Dongshan, Xiamen and other places, there is Xiamen-Shenzhen railway transit. The topography of Yunxiao County tilts from northwest to south, the northeast, west and southwest edges are mountainous, and the middle to southeast is the coastal plain. The coastline is 48 kilometers long. The Zhangjiang River flows through the county, and Fengtou Reservoir and eastward are built in the upper reaches.
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